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"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."
Anita Brookner
"Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of."
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"I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them."
Pete Best
"I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It took me some time to decide but I wanted to spend more time with my wife and two daughters who were always beside me. I wanted to do everything I could for them."
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"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."
Jacques Barzun
"In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal."
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"But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron."
Kenneth Lay
"But indeed a market like California is not good for Enron."
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"You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business."
Don Bluth
"You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business."
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"I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business."
Billy Eckstine
"I just went to Harvard a little while, because I graduated from Armstrong High School in Washington and then I went up there but I didn't stay that long because I went into show business."
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"If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything."
Michael Schenker
"If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything."
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"I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business."
Robert Reed
"I've always thought of science fiction as being, at some level, a 19th-century business."
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"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"
Will Rogers
"We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?"
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"You have to be a little unreal to be in this business."
Kim Basinger
"You have to be a little unreal to be in this business."
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"Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest."
Roy Barnes
"Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest."
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"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
Trevor Nunn
"A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature."
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"We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news."
Aaron Brown
"We are in the business of gathering the news. We're not in the business of talking about the news."
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"Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered."
Alexander McCall Smith
"Mma Ramotswe tucked the cheque safely away in her bodice. Modern business methods were all very well, she thought, but when it came to the safeguarding of money there were some places which had yet to be bettered."
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"I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus."
Aaron Yoo
"I feel like after acting, the other half of why I love this business is the opportunity to work with and meet people who inspire you. That it pays my rent is a good bonus."
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"Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity."
Farshad Asl
"Selling is serving, helping others find solutions, impacting lives positively with passion and integrity."
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"The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music."
Mark Zuckerberg
"The basis of our partnership strategy and our partnership approach: We build the social technology. They provide the music."
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"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster."
Josiah Strong
"Commercial distress in any great business center will the more surely create widespread disaster."
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"I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business."
Al Hirt
"I always smoked cigars. I've smoked cigars with everybody in show business."
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"The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past."
Bud Selig
"The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past."
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"And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus."
Jim Cantalupo
"And ours is a business that requires discipline and focus."
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"In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained."
Phil Condit
"In simple terms, we are aligning our business today with the way we believe future systems are going to be designed, acquired and maintained."
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"To survive, men and business and corporations must serve."
John Henry Patterson
"To survive, men and business and corporations must serve."
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"If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent."
Edward S. Herman
"If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent."
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"The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it."
Kim Wilde
"The record company really pissed me off when they told me to lose weight. I couldn't be bothered with looking a certain way. So I left the business. I don't regret it."
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"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did."
Sanford I. Weill
"My mother really didn't know a heck of a lot about business. She was a very good mother, that made sure we ate right and we had our cod liver oil, but didn't know a heck of a lot about what I did."
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"When an employee, a team, or a company is passionate about their products and services, I am more inclined to bring them my business. Aren't you?"
Susan C. Young
"When an employee, a team, or a company is passionate about their products and services, I am more inclined to bring them my business. Aren't you?"
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"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home."
David Herbert Lawrence
"The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home."
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"To help small business owners get the cash they deserve for their business needs."
Ken Poirot
"To help small business owners get the cash they deserve for their business needs."
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"I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave."
Jacqueline Bisset
"I have watched people who have nothing to do with the film business, but who have become part of the circle for a short period of time. They can be truly devastated when the film wraps and people leave."
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"It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people."
Lee R. Raymond
"It is important to remember that all business has an impact on the lives of real people."
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"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."
Jim Rohn
"Part of your heritage in this society is the opportunity to become financially independent."
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"I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business."
Mike Peters
"I would say you feel a lot more pressure at a national tournament than a state tournament. This is more of a fun weekend out with the guys. The national tournament is more business."
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"My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education."
John Knowles
"My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education."
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"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
Meryl Streep
"Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person."
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"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
Elon Musk
"Selling an electric sports car creates an opportunity to fundamentally change the way America drives."
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"I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible."
Wally George
"I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible."
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"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life."
Grace Paley
"The word career is a divisive word. It's a word that divides the normal life from business or professional life."
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"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."
John L. Phillips
"If I wasn't doing this kind of exploration, I'd like to be doing some other kind of exploration. It might be more risky, or less risky, but, in the business of exploration, risk is part of the territory."
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"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
Aaron Burr
"The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business."
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"The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share."
Antonio Perez
"The wireless segment is approximately 50 percent of our business... we believe this is an industry-wide phenomenon and that we are, in fact, maintaining if not gaining market share."
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"We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do."
Skitch Henderson
"We try to say it's creative and in a manner it is creative, but it is a business, because today, with the cost factor in crossing the boundaries that you do."
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"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased."
Lee Scott
"If we take care of the customers and associates and grow the business, Wall Street will be pleased."
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"I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan."
Sam Donaldson
"I wanted to be in this business, and once I got into the business I knew I enjoyed it, and I liked it, and I wanted to continue, but I never had a five year plan."
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"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on."
Albert J. Nock
"The business of a scientific school is the dissemination of useful knowledge, and this is a noble enterprise and indispensable withal; society can not exist unless it goes on."
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"I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked."
Johnnie Ray
"I am constantly asked why I never made other films after 'There's No Business Like Show Business,' the answer is I was never asked."
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"It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business."
Phil Katz
"It was just a hobby. I didn't expect it to turn into a business."
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"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind."
Julius Rosenwald
"Early in my business career I learned the folly of worrying about anything. I have always worked as hard as I could, but when a thing went wrong and could not be righted, I dismissed it from my mind."
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"I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock."
Zack Wamp
"I used to be in the real estate business, and I have three areas of interest: Chickamauga Lock, Chickamauga Lock, and Chickamauga Lock."
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"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
Joseph Barbera
"Friends don't necessarily made good business or creative partners."
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